Tim, I had a similar request from a friend a few years back (she wanted to encourage her clerk to move into the digital age) and couldn't find anything that had been tailored to parish council needs. There were several commercial companies creating bespoke offerings at what seemed to me a large amount of cash for very little website.
One thing I did wander across is this tool-kit from the Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors, which covers what the roles and responsibilities of a parish council are, their powers and has some specimen documents to help a new clerk get off the ground. Which should help focus your mind on what a clerk would be trying to do (and so help identify what software you need) http://www.acses.org.uk/public_file/filename/28/Parish_Toolkit_April_2009.doc If you succeed in your quest to find such a thing please let me know, or if you decide to roll your own and need a hand give me a shout. Yours etc George On 24 May 2013 10:33, Tim Morley <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been asked if I'd be interested in creating a web presence for a > parish council, which as yet is still in the era of paper, phone calls, and > cc-ed emails. > > My immediate thought was to use just a vanilla WordPress install, but I > wondered: is there a popular package or platform out there for Parish > Council websites, that deals with DDA compliance out of the box, has a set > of ready made pages and functions that PCs usually need, and hopefully is > also free? > > Thanks for any and all helpful suggestions. > > > Tim > > > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/george%40counsell.org > -- "If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." —Oliver Wendell Holmes http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2373/2373-h/2373-h.htm
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